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Exploring UFOs and Extraterrestrial LifeThu, 08 Feb 2018 05:38:54 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.3Stationary orb UFO photographed in Englandhttp://www.openminds.tv/stationary-orb-ufo-photographed-in-england-1183/24526
http://www.openminds.tv/stationary-orb-ufo-photographed-in-england-1183/24526#commentsThu, 24 Oct 2013 21:31:37 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=24526A woman was astounded when she saw a UFO hovering over the Hertfordshire town of Garston in England on the morning of Wednesday, October 23.

UFO photographed in Garston. (Credit: Clare Norton/Watford Observer)

At approximately 5:20 a.m., witness Clare Norton stepped outside to smoke while she waited for her baby’s bottle to cool. It was then that she observed the strange bright object in the sky. She explained to the Watford Observer,

I thought it was just a plane at first but it just stayed there and kept glowing for around 10 to 15 minutes. It was right in front of me and I thought ‘what the hell is that?’, it stayed right in front of me – I couldn’t believe it.

Norton ran inside to get her camera, and when she returned, she managed to photograph the UFO.

After feeding her baby, she looked again, but saw that the object was gone. She explained, “I was shocked as I don’t believe in things like that but I have changed my mind as I have seen it.”

According to KTRK ABC13 in Houston, the witness described the UFOs as “red fire balls in the sky” to a Sheriff’s Department dispatcher. Deputies responded and observed the UFOs themselves. They report seeing four orange lights in the sky at approximately 3,000 feet in altitude, traveling slowly in a “loose line” spanning approximately ten miles. The deputies say that, after observing the lights for a few seconds, “three of the objects disappeared and shortly thereafter, a fourth one disappeared.” But after these four lights disappeared, eight to ten other fireball UFOs appeared in approximately the same location in the sky, and traveled in the same direction as the previous objects.

Deputies say that at least ten to twelve other witnesses saw the fireball UFOs.

sky lanterns in flight. (Credit: Jason McClellan)

The Sheriff’s Office contacted both the FAA and National Weather Bureau, but neither were able to provide any clues to help identify the strange aerial lights. But according to KSAT, the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) provided deputies with a possible explanation for the lights. NUFORC explained that “similar sightings in Florida had been reported last week and could possibly be what is described as ‘sky lanterns’ that are released during various celebrations.” Deputies seem to doubt this explanation, because they reportedly stated that sky lanterns are not usually released in large numbers. Although this might not “usually” be the case, sky lanterns (or Chinese lanterns as they are also known) are occasionally released in large numbers when launched during a celebration, as mentioned by NUFORC. These paper lanterns function like mini hot air balloons, drifting slowly through the sky for a brief period of time. The lantern appears to disappear when the fuel cell heating the air inside the balloon expires.

The deputies were able to ascertain that the wind direction at 3,000 feet on March 23 would have caused a “balloon-type object” to drift in a southwest direction. The fireball UFOs observed that night were traveling in a southwest direction.

The fireball UFOs observed over Daisetta, TX do fit the description and behavior of sky lanterns. But an official identification has not been made.

UPDATE:
According to ABC13, a resident of nearby Raywood, TX came forward claiming responsibility for the fireball UFOs. This individual says the mysterious lights were from approximately fifty to seventy-five sky lanterns released at a wedding reception.

On Tuesday, March 5, actor Russell Crowe posted a link on his Twitter account to a video compilation of three timed-exposure photos showing what he asserts is a UFO. But some believe the mysterious object in Crowe’s photos has been identified.

Russell Crowe UFO Picture 1 (Credit: Russell Crowe)

Nancy Atkinson of Universe Today published an article on March 7 titled Mystery Solved: Breakdown of Russell Crowe’s UFO Video in which she references a video by Phil Poling of ParaBreakdown (an apparent Bigfoot research group). Atkinson explains that, in this video, Poling provides “a breakdown of why Crowe’s UFO is most likely to be a series of long-exposure photos of a . . . wait for it . . . passing sailboat with a high mast.”

So is the mystery solved? Many have closed the book on this UFO mystery, accepting the boat identification. But not Crowe. As the Herald Sun reports, in response to the boat assertion, Crowe took to his Twitter account again to refute the claim.

re UFO? It can’t be a yacht , would have to be travelling 80kmph (50mph) to cover that distance in 4.5 seconds

As Alejandro Rojas pointed out on March 7 in his article on OpenMinds.tv, it is still unclear why Crowe waited four years to post these photos. This peculiarity has some speculating that the photos were released as a publicity stunt by Crowe.

What do you think about Crowe’s UFO? Does the boat explanation make sense, or does Crowe’s claim of mathematical improbability leave room for doubt? Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below, or on the Open Minds Facebook page.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/russell-crowes-ufo-identified-924/18904/feed1Soldiers report 100+ UFOs along Chinese borderhttp://www.openminds.tv/soldiers-report-100-ufos-along-chinese-border-870/17553
http://www.openminds.tv/soldiers-report-100-ufos-along-chinese-border-870/17553#respondMon, 05 Nov 2012 20:57:08 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=17553Soldiers have reported UFOs in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state of India. These witnesses, who are members of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP), have reported spotting more than one-hundred UFOs spanning a two-and-a-half-month period.

Object photographed by the ITBP. (Credit: ITBP/India Times)

The sightings were recorded between August 1 and October 15, 2012. The “unidentified luminous objects” were seen at both day and night. And India Today explains that witnesses describe these objects as “yellowish spheres” that appear to “lift off from the horizon on the Chinese side and slowly traverse the sky for three to five hours before disappearing.” This information reportedly comes from documents sent by the ITBP to their Delhi headquarters and to the Prime Minister’s Office.

Several agencies have attempted to identify these UFOs, but have been unsuccessful. The Indian Army deployed a mobile ground-based radar unit to verify the identity of the UFOs. But, as the Economic Times explains, radar did not detect the objects, which indicates they were non-metallic. The army also used a spectrum analyzer, but it did not detect any signals being emitted from the UFOs.

Army officials have been able to determine that these UFOs were not unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) or drones. Additionally, a team of astronomers from the Indian Astronomical Observatory reportedly observed these UFOs, and studied the phenomena for three days. The team could not identify the objects, but did conclude that the objects were “non celestial,” ruling out meteors and planets.

India Today explains that, as with the efforts of the army and the Indian Astronomical Observatory, the National Technical Research Organisation and the Defence Research Development Organisation have been unable to identify the mysterious aerial objects.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/soldiers-report-100-ufos-along-chinese-border-870/17553/feed0Flash of light in Phoenix identified?http://www.openminds.tv/flash-of-light-in-phoenix-identified-901/14695
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:17:28 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=14695Last week, we reported on a mysterious bright flash of light that occurred during a live television broadcast on Fox 10 in Phoenix, Arizona on the morning of Thursday, March 8. New information obtained this week provides a possible explanation for the strange flash of light.

Strange flash of light during a newscast. (Credit: Fox 10)

Following the incident, Fox 10 contacted local utility providers to see if they could provide an explanation for the light flash, but none of those companies could. But days later, a different story emerged. Local utility company Arizona Public Service (APS) confirmed on Monday, March 12 that an electrical line breaker opened, causing the flash of light, and resulting in a temporary power outage in the area.

Although Fox 10 contacted APS and specifically asked them about the incident last week, the station reports that APS simply did not realize there had been a breaker issue in the area until an employee came forward over the weekend to report that he had been called out to the area to address an open breaker. According to Fox 10, “The lights were out for a few seconds then they came back on. There was no damage to equipment and no power lines had to be replaced.”

What do you think about this explanation for the strange flash of light? Does a power company not know when its employees are called out on jobs? Would a light blast like this one that reportedly knocked out power really cause no damage to electrical equipment? Share your thoughts with us on the Open Minds Facebook page.

On December 10, a man in Claremont, Ontario in Canada saw a strange glowing UFO in the sky.

According to James Fykes, the witness, at approximately 7 p.m., he felt an unexplainable urge to go outside with his camera. He looked up at the full moon and noticed a large sphere-shaped object in the sky with the moon that was emitting a pale glow. Fykes described, “I have no idea how big it was, because I have no way of knowing how far away it was, but it seemed to be almost rotating around the moon.”

Fykes took a few pictures of the mysterious object, adjusting exposures and shutter speeds with each shot in an attempt to capture the best possible image of the UFO. One of the photos supports the witness’s description that the UFO was moving. Using a slow shutter speed, Fykes snapped a photo that shows the strange object blurred, indicating motion. This kind of blur is common in night photography, especially when the camera is hand-held, because the slightest movement of the camera will blur any light sources in the photo. However, this is not the case in this particular photo. The UFO appears blurred, but the moon does not. This indicates that the object was moving while the camera was stationary.

The UFO in motion (credit: James Fykes)

It is common for mysterious objects to appear in photos taken in low-light environments, and the cause is usually light reflections or lens flare. But Fykes knows that is not the case with his photos. He used a lens that reduces vibrations, and, as I just explained, only the object is blurred, not the moon. And his strongest argument against lens flare or reflection is the simple fact that he observed the object with his naked eyes in the sky above him.

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Two orb UFOs were recently recorded on video in the sky over Missouri. The Epoch Times provides this description of the video: “The brightly glowing objects are traveling low in the evening sky. They fly around each other, appearing to almost collide, before descending in the distance and disappearing behind some trees.”

A husband and wife witnessed the glowing UFOs together, and the wife recorded the incident on her iPhone. The husband then submitted a report of their sighting to MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network), which included the video. The video has since been uploaded to YouTube, along with the following description from the husband that was submitted with his MUFON sighting report:

“My wife witnessed 2 glowing orbs in the sky while she was driving down our street on SE Sherrett St. She has an incredible video that she shot from her iPhone, through her windshield. The lights spun around each other and then descended to the ground where they then went behind some trees and out of view. She is very reluctant to share this experience, so I am writing this for her. The video is 34 seconds long, and it is incredible.”

Some have suggested that the mysterious lights in the video could be remote-controlled airplanes, while others have suggested the video is nothing more than a hoax. However no official identification has been made.

The Epoch Times points out that there have been several UFO sightings reported in Missouri recently. And according to data assembled and interpreted by Alejandro Rojas of Open Minds, Missouri is ranked fifth in the top ten UFO hotspots in the United States.

According to Fox 4 News in Kansas City, a witness recorded the mysterious lights with a cell phone on the night of Monday, October 3. But other reports indicate that the lights have been seen on multiple nights. According to Margie Kay, assistant state director for MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), witnesses saw the lights on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. She explained that the reports are of “very large craft hovering in different areas, and that’s quite unusual because normal airplanes do not have that behavior. Helicopters do, but these are not described as helicopters.”

Fox 4 News states that Kay contacted local airports, looking for help identifying any of the 82 UFO sightings reported. The airports helped her determine that some of the sightings could be explained by stunt planes that were in the air at the time.

Stunt planes (credit: Fox 4 News)

Further evidence surfaced today that supports the “stunt plane” theory. Fox 4 News reported this morning (October 7) that KC Flight, a civilian air formation team, has come forward to claim responsibility for the lights in the sky. Pilot Phillip Lamb explained that he and his eight-man team “practices at night because the city lights illuminate the planes.” He further explained that “during their flights, the planes’ wings are typically three feet apart and are stacked approximately three to four feet above or below each other, causing the planes to appear like a single object from the ground.”

If the lights that were observed by at least 82 people were the result of city lights illuminating these stunt airplanes, it would seem logical to assume that other airplanes are also illuminated at night by city lights. But other airplanes don’t seem to have caused the buzz generated by the mysterious lights in the sky this week. Additionally, several witnesses reported seeing the lights hover, then shoot off quickly. As Kay previously stated, that isn’t normal behavior for airplanes.

The object in the sky above New Mexico (credit: KOAT/SweetsPhotoSuite)

KOAT channel 7, the ABC affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico said that calls poured into their newsroom on Saturday evening from witnesses reporting a strange light in the sky. A similar light was spotted in the sky above Phoenix, Arizona early Sunday morning.

A routine weather balloon was initially offered by meteorologists as an explanation for the light in the sky. But the National Weather Service in Phoenix issued a statement Sunday morning to offer another explanation — a NASA-affiliated research balloon. The statement announced, “After further research we received confirmation from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility that a launch did occur from Fort Sumner, New Mexico last night and was brought down over Arizona this morning.”

The National Weather Service statement offered the “research balloon” theory, but concluded “This may explain the sightings,” not offering a 100% conclusive identification for the strange light that appeared over New Mexico and Arizona. But pictures of the light do strongly resemble a research balloon, so that is most likely what it was.

This video from KPNX channel 12, the NBC affiliate in Phoenix, shows the flight path of the research balloon: